When John Wheelock Bingham was born on 21 July 1797, in Ulster, Ulster Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Ozias Bingham, was 47 and his mother, Martha Rutty, was 33. He married Electa Foster in 1825, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 28 October 1830, in North Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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1797–1830 Male
1807–1876 Female
1825–1895 Female
1827–1905 Female
1829–1900 Female
1831–1890 Male
1750–1845 Male
1764–1826 Female
1797–1830 Male
1799–1831 Male
English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .
American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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